how many times a week do you work out?

kayleexbabeex
kayleexbabeex Posts: 55 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
How many times a week do you work out and how long for? Just curious to hear people's different routines.
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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    edited November 2015
    I ride 4-5x per week...my week day rides are about an hour and I usually do a longer ride on the weekend. I lift 3x per week usually...for the most part I lift with about 60% of my max at 8-10 reps except for my Olympic stuff...in the winter I tend to spend less time on my bike and that's when I do my "heavy" weight training cycles and I'll usually lift 4x per week.

    If I'm training for a cycling event, I spend way more time on my bike to get the miles in and only lift a couple of days per week and do more higher rep stuff with lighter weight.

    ETA: I generally take 1-2 rest days per week depending...every 6 weeks or so I do a de-load and take it pretty easy.
  • piperdown44
    piperdown44 Posts: 958 Member
    5x per week. Usually about 50 mins each time.
    Weekends are a mix of yard work, helping with the house, and some other activity like going to a bazaar and walking around.
  • Butterfly2022MD
    Butterfly2022MD Posts: 246 Member
    3 x per week-but i plan to up it to 5x a week for 45 min this week. i left 3x a week
  • MeiannaLee
    MeiannaLee Posts: 338 Member
    3-4x a week, about an hour and a half.
  • yesimpson
    yesimpson Posts: 1,372 Member
    4-5 times per week. Depending on what the activity is, usually between 30 and 90 minutes each time.
  • Mistraal1981
    Mistraal1981 Posts: 453 Member
    I lift on four days for about an hour a day and I have a fifth day where I take a spin class for just under an hour.
  • PeiDub
    PeiDub Posts: 77 Member
    5-6. Length depends on the activity. If I go to a class, it's about an hour, 45-60 minutes if I'm lifting, and about 30 if I'm running.
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    On avg 3-4x per week, lifting mostly, some cardio, 30-40min each
  • ECTexan
    ECTexan Posts: 195 Member
    1-2 hrs a day, 6 days a week.
  • FitGirl0123
    FitGirl0123 Posts: 1,273 Member
    edited November 2015
    I lift 5 to 6 days a week. I take rest days as I feel they are needed rather than scheduling them. Most of the time I am done within an hour at the gym, but never more than 90 minutes.
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    I actually work out for training purposes three days a week - Friday, Sunday, Tuesday. This is about 30 minutes of strength training followed by about 25 minutes of HIIT.

    Then there's the exercise I do for pleasure, like walking for an hour most days, or that I do because it needs to happen, like yardwork. I don't really count those as anything other than my normal day to day activities.
  • Working2BLean
    Working2BLean Posts: 386 Member
    5 x a week I do morning recovery rides. Slower calorie burn rides. They help with soreness and really are a good thing. They are on normal workout days

    Weights 2 days a week.

    Fast ride 2x a week

    Saturday will be some kind of long workout. This Saturday was 50 mile ride and 10K run.







  • jodidari
    jodidari Posts: 95 Member
    Minimum none. Maximum around 9 times. Average around 3 times a week due to a busy schedule
  • kbmnurse
    kbmnurse Posts: 2,484 Member
    This week 7 days burning over 2200cal. I vary my workouts between Leslie Sansone walking DVD/Treadmill walking with varying incline-speed and outdoor walking. The best thing I did was stopped drinking alcohol-day #8.
  • ghouli
    ghouli Posts: 207 Member
    edited November 2015
    Gym, 5x a week, usually an hour each day. The other two days I try to get outside and do something like go for a walk.
  • ROBOTFOOD
    ROBOTFOOD Posts: 5,527 Member
    7x/wk. 1-3hr. Longer days are running days. Lifting rarely goes over 2hr.
  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes Posts: 4,955 Member
    5-6 days a week. Anywhere from 1-3 hours a session. All lifting, or rehab/correctives/prehab
  • joinn68
    joinn68 Posts: 480 Member
    Min 3 times a week M W F 60 to 80 min walk/run + calisthenics. 2x week (T T or S) gym mainly weight training. Still fine tuning. Long-term goal is to consistently exercise 6 days a week, running and strength training
  • 19gabriela01
    19gabriela01 Posts: 2,090 Member
    Every bloody day about 2-3 hours!!! If not I must have something very important to do that I don't make it to the gym.
  • ltworide
    ltworide Posts: 342 Member
    edited November 2015
    I workout 5 days/week, Monday to Friday. I take weekends off but do the usual housework, groceries, yard work, etc. I try to fit in a walk/foam rolling/active stretching etc i don't count the daily walks/chores/stretches etc as exercise.

    Depending on how I'm training during a particular cycle I do anywhere from 2-5 strength training sessions per week and 2-4 cardio sessions per week and yoga 1/week.

    Currently I am doing a full body minimalist strength training cycle 3 days/week with a heavy focus on strength-endurance, 1 day/week ladder/cone drills, lead a HIIT class 1-2 days/week, yoga 1/week and Krav Maga 3 days/week.
  • niniundlapin
    niniundlapin Posts: 327 Member
    Usually 30-50 min per day & 5-6x per week. I'm finishing up P90X3 and am mixing it with some Les Mills programs now (also around 30 min). I plan to do another round of P90X3 but a different schedule to see what would happen!
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,597 Member
    kayleexbabeex wrote: »
    How many times a week do you work out and how long for? Just curious to hear people's different routines.

    Depends what you mean by "working out". If you mean exercise ... every day ... and it varies.

  • foursirius
    foursirius Posts: 321 Member
    4 days a week. I may toss some cardio in on other days, but only really push it 4 days.
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  • nethanh
    nethanh Posts: 1 Member
    5x per week, cardio before and after workout. Strength training is my main focus, usually about an hour per workout.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    4x per week, for an hour to and hour and a half. Lifting and no cardio.
  • lingo10
    lingo10 Posts: 305 Member
    Mostly 5x but sometimes if I feel like it 6x. When sick, I scale back alot and do mostly yoga and light stretching with 1 cardio day.
  • Cahgetsfit
    Cahgetsfit Posts: 1,912 Member
    minimum 3 s week for minimum 45 mins each time. I don't faff around though - no resting for ages between sets or anything like that. Beast Mode as much as possible. That's for weights. I also swim on saturday mornings for about 1/2 hour while my daughter has lessons. I always end up walking around quite a lot on the weekends too.

    If I didn't make it to the gym for any reason then I will try to get off bus early and walk to the car (time permitting).

    When I'm having a good week (as in nothing at work to stop me from going to the gym - I work out at lunchtime) I do weights 4x for about 50-55 mins and 1 x boxing for 50 mins during the week + my swimming.
  • starryphoenix
    starryphoenix Posts: 381 Member
    4, but going to do 8 now.
  • madammags
    madammags Posts: 97 Member
    I do weight training 3 times per week, using the NROL Supercharged programs (which include finishing up with some cardio intervals), running 2 times per week (once with some intervals, once steady pace), and 2 'rest' days where I either do yoga, go for a long walk, or go swimming.
    So I do *something* every day, but have two days per week where that something is fairly low key.

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